Hacker News: theDoug

New comment by theDoug in "GitHub Public Roadmap"

theDoug — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 05:22:59 +0000

For the time being all public commitments, release notes, and deprecation notices can be found in one or both of:

- Release notes: https://cloud.google.com/release-notes

- GCP Blog: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp

New comment by theDoug in "GitHub Public Roadmap"

theDoug — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 05:14:34 +0000

Thank you! We work really hard on the GCP roadmap program, keeping it fully accountable, and pushing against interesting transparency limits.

A public GCP roadmap is also in longer plans but there's a few internal flows we want to improve first. I'm especially trying to reduce the number of sites people need to visit, and want to ultimately see it land in a common place where authenticated users also see the non-public / NDA aspects.

And seconding this advice on access. If you are a GCP customer, your account manager is able to add your account for access. My contact info is in my profile and I can reach your account team if you have difficulties.

New comment by theDoug in "GitHub Public Roadmap"

theDoug — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 04:58:53 +0000

Yeah. All Cloud deprecations have a minimum of a year notice, usually as an email, ahead of multiple follow up emails as the year draws close. It's in the terms.

Additionally, you can also get this information in the public release notes https://cloud.google.com/release-notes twice-monthly GCP newsletter, and for G Suite administrators in their news area. "Sigh."

New comment by theDoug in "macOS 10.16 is all about tools and maturity"

theDoug — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:09:48 +0000

Maybe it is. I feel like this is the narrative on every second cycle since 10.6 (Snow Leopard, to 10.5's Leopard), that "this" is the one where things get more reliable and nature.

New comment by theDoug in "Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in macOS"

theDoug — Sat, 30 May 2020 14:23:09 +0000

The answer is found in System Preferences > Mission Control. Uncheck the “Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use” box :)

New comment by theDoug in "Google recommends all North America employees work from home"

theDoug — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 04:28:13 +0000

Generally "Europe, the Middle East and Africa"

New comment by theDoug in "I feel like im talking to the borg"

theDoug — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:09:40 +0000

Poor 20-something grandfather Rafael also identifies as a nana and as a middle-aged woman.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheKenChilds/status/1161847717397...

New comment by theDoug in "The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous Companies in the U.S."

theDoug — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 01:14:41 +0000

> To obtain a library card in any state in the U.S., the applicant must be the person who will ultimately be controlling/using the card, and a significant amount of identifying information must be provided by the person to the state in order to obtain the library card.

This is nonsesne, or at least was here in Sunnyvale California. I walked in with a phone bill. No ID, nothing else. In hindsight it probably could have been anyone's bill, or even a fake.

New comment by theDoug in "Google's New Manager Student Workbook"

theDoug — Sun, 26 May 2019 19:21:36 +0000

This is not what Google uses, but shares many similarities, so the title of "Google's" isn't fully correct.

This is an example from https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/

New comment by theDoug in "If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)"

theDoug — Sun, 26 May 2019 19:18:17 +0000

'Major' is up to personal definition and will distract people here no doubt. Metafiter has been my long-time lighthouse for this kind of gauge, though obviously not as big as its peak.

https://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi

- Anyone can view the site and its content

- Very clearly putting their rules of the road up (link above) before you can 'join'

- Commenting/posting/membership is a $5, one time fee

- A one-week wait before you can post

- Paid moderation

And it works.

New comment by theDoug in "Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (2017)"

theDoug — Sun, 26 May 2019 08:15:10 +0000

In the instance of these headphones, the app allows you to adjust the level of active noise cancellation as well as choose which sources can send audio to the headphones. Neither of which are set up to be done directly via the device.

New comment by theDoug in "Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist"

theDoug — Sun, 19 May 2019 19:55:24 +0000

Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19954673

New comment by theDoug in "Google Fights Back"

theDoug — Wed, 08 May 2019 16:53:24 +0000

You seem fixated on the word "promise," which I've never once heard said.

Assistant calling and Duplex appointment booking were both available within the year, across most of the United States, but you claim neither work.

New comment by theDoug in "Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location and Web History"

theDoug — Thu, 02 May 2019 15:49:48 +0000

Great, another thing they deprecate, my own history. /s

New comment by theDoug in "Flutter desktop shells"

theDoug — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:07:49 +0000

Nah. The number of issues on any project is not an indication of project quality but community activity and imagination for improvements. This is the wrong number to point to if you're trying to make this point.

New comment by theDoug in "Your Android Phone Is a Security Key"

theDoug — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 19:54:29 +0000

But looking at a web page nearly made his body vomit!

New comment by theDoug in "Cloud Run beta pricing"

theDoug — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 03:43:21 +0000

Google Cloud? Which two?

New comment by theDoug in "Cloud Run beta pricing"

theDoug — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 03:38:04 +0000

It is an important question, but Google services which are largely consumer-based and no cost are a very different world from Google Cloud. People get a lot of Internet Cool Guy points these days from falsely conflating the two.

I'm not the to make commitments but our history has been solid, and our deprecation policy is embedded in our terms of service for every Cloud user.

The only product I can remember us deprecating in GCP was Prediction API in favor of the much-preferred Cloud Machine Learning Engine, and with that came communication to every single affected admin and a _year_ before cut-off.

https://cloud.google.com/terms/

New comment by theDoug in "Google Cloud Outage"

theDoug — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:34:10 +0000

Yeah, looks like 52 minutes for a routing issue in one zone in a single region. Not that downtime is fun for anyone.

Disclosure: I work for Google Cloud

New comment by theDoug in "Too much information as an impediment for action"

theDoug — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 01:08:12 +0000

One area I've found helpful is focusing on sources of clarity. With the volume of information/data of all levels of quality becoming so abundant to the point of being overwhelming, and that volume used to influence, the more I can identify the answer to these two points with what is being shoved my way, the better I feel about what I do ultimately select:

- What supposed truth is this information trying to uphold or undermine?

- Is this information trying to make me more or less active on the previous point?

Increasingly I'm getting out of the habit of accepting "I've heard something like this a LOT lately" as a positive sign of influence or motivation toward a next step. Any idiot can buy out the podcast ad inventory to sell their buddy's brain genius pills, it doesn't make consumption wise.

(The poster linked to their own blog post, so maybe they'll add their own opinion to either, rather than summarizing two quotes from David Allen.)